BECCA’S U.S. DEBUT CD ALIVE!! TO DROP ON JANUARY 5TH

ON SIN (SONYMUSIC INDEPENDENT NETWORK)

KICKIN & SCREAMIN EP OUT NOW

2010 TOUR DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON

“the stage presence of Joan Jett and Suzy Quattro all rolled into one 20 year old young woman with a bit of a chip on her shoulder and a edge that we’ve not

seen since those two artists hit rock in the late 70s”

– Young Poor And Angry Press, September 2009

Hailing from Portland, OR and now based out of Los Angeles Becca has already made a mark on the international music charts and she is gearing up to do the same in the U.S. as she gears up for the release for her U.S. debut CD ALIVE!! co-written and produced by singer-songwriter Meredith Brooks who had hits herself with such songs as “Bitch” and “What Would Happen.”  Becca’s ALIVE!! to drop on January 5 at all digital outlets and Amazon Disc On Demand via SIN – SonyMusic Independent Network.

Equally adept at belting out full-throttle, female empowering rockers as she is crooning big arena-sized power ballads Becca carves a melodic blast on songs like “I’m ALIVE!,” her vow to live life to the fullest in the wake of the premature death of a friend, and “Turn Up the Stereo,” a cautionary tale to her peers about the dead-end offered by non-stop partying as well as songs examining personal relationships, such as “Turn to Stone,” “Lose You Now” and “Perfect Me,” the expressions of an artist who is wise beyond her years.  Sugary enough to give you a tooth ache until she throws you a sucker punch to the gut!

Look for US tour dates to be announced soon.

ALIVE!! Track listing:

1. I’m ALIVE!
2. TURN TO STONE
3. SHIBUYA
4. Turn Up The Stereo
5. Guilty Pleasure
6. Kickin’ & Screamin’
7. Lose You Now
8. EMPTY
9. Without You
10. Make You Mad
11. Perfect Me
12. Falling Down
13. I DROVE ALL NIGHT

Check out www.BeccaOfficial.com or

www.myspace.com/beccachanofficial

Follow her at twitter.com/BeccaUSA

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It’s the Fourth Coming of the Ska Is Dead Tour (http://www.skaisdead.com/), and there are signs that the resurrection is keeping. Marking a return of the all-ska tour after a three-year hiatus, SID4 is bringing ass-shaking good times to an all-ages venue near you RIGHT NOW (see site for tour dates). Saturday’s 6 hour set from 5 great bands proved SID founder Dave Kirchgessner’s posit: Ska is anything but dead.

Local Portland band The Disliked opened with a tightly wound set, complete with a upbeat Cars cover of ‘Just What I Needed’. True skanksters filtered to the floor for the SF Bay group, Monkey. Their high-energy horn section and positive vibe were an excellent lead-in to Chicago’s Deal’s Gone Bad. With true punk-rock enthusiasm, lead man Todd Hembrook led the crowd in call-and-answer “Fuck Yeah!”s and “Motherfuckin’ All Right!”s before jumping off with their classic, “Things Are Gonna Get Better.” Layering vocal harmonies and punchy horns, DGB shook the Hawthorne and every Doc Martened foot in the house.

SoCal legends Voodoo Glow Skulls took to the stage after 10:30 and punched out songs from some of their newer releases before settling into a more natural-sounding set of 90′s skate-core favorites. Ska-gods The Toasters took the reigns for the last set of the show, and the punks faded back to let the skins to get their skank on. Rudies linked elbows with aging hipsters, and the show mellowed to a surprisingly calm close, showing us that Ska’s not only not dead, but that it’s also got manners.

-HK like the gun with the grin.

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Where the heck were these guys when I lived in Portland? Not around I guess. I wish I would have would have been in town though. They sound like a hella good band. Folksy and punky with songs of sailing the seas and the drinking of beer. They swagger like Swingin’ Utters and The Pogues and rock out with less melodrama than most of the rain-addled cock-n-roll of many Portland bands. Cloudy Skies contains 12.5 tracks of the aforementioned variety of rock and it does not dissapoint. If you like the drinking and the singalongs and music that may make you want to steal a boat, then this one is for you. There’s more to it of course, but the jist of it is good time rock and roll. Enjoy!

–Jerry Actually

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